狠 — Chinese character
狠
hěn
vicious, fierce, cruel
- Pinyin
- hěn
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 犭 艮
- Formation
- pictophonetic — dog; meaning component 犭; sound component 艮
- Japanese
- 狠 as a kanji
Common words with 狠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狠狠 | hěn hěn | resolutely; firmly |
| 凶狠 (兇狠) | xiōng hěn | variant of 凶狠 (xiōng hěn) |
| 凶狠 | xiōng hěn | cruel; vicious |
| 狠心 | hěn xīn | callous; heartless; to resolve (to do sth) |
| 狠毒 | hěn dú | vicious; malicious |
| 心狠手辣 | xīn hěn shǒu là | (idiom) vicious; merciless |
| 恶狠狠 (惡狠狠) | è hěn hěn | very fierce |
| 狠劲 (狠勁) | hěn jìn | to exert all one's force; all-out effort |
| 狠命 | hěn mìng | exerting all one's strength |
| 算你狠 | suàn nǐ hěn | you got me!; you win! |
| 下狠心 | xià hěn xīn | to resolve (to do sth); to toughen up |
| 恶狠 (惡狠) | è hěn | fierce and vicious |
English words written with 狠
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.